Instructional resources: Course management tools

Oncourse is the main course management tool at Indiana University. At its simplest, it offers a straightforward way to create a Web site for every course offered. Oncourse incorporates automated tests and gradebooks, chat, and forums.

• Oncourse overview  
• Logging into Oncourse  
• Enter Oncourse

Following are a few of the things you can do with Oncourse:

• Creating, changing, or deleting a schedule item
   
• Creating, changing, or deleting a discussion forum
   
• Steps involved in creating a new test or survey
   
• Developing questions for a test or survey
   
• Creating a new gradebook
   
• Entering grades for a test or assignment

Some courses use Usenet newsgroups for class communication.

• About Usenet newsgroups